Introduction Linux

History Of UNIX

Linux OS Operating System Inherit by Unix OS.
Unix OS implemented in the 1960s and first released in 1970 under GNU GPL
Project. 1 January 1970 Brian Kernighan Found very good software for client
& Networking purpose. He gave the name UNIX, that time the first Operating
System written in 100% C Language and released in 1973.

A famous professor Andrew Tanenbaum developed
Minix, a simplified version of UNIX that runs on PC. Minix is for class teaching
only. No intention for Commercial use.

History Of LINUX

In Sept 1991, 23 year old Linus Benedict
Torvalds, a second year student of Computer Science at the University of
Helsinki (Finland), developed the preliminary kernel of Linux, known as Linux
version 0.0.1

Introduction LINUX

# October 5th 1991, Torvalds sent a posting to
the comp.os.minix newsgroup announcing the release of Version 0.0.2

# January 5th 1992, Linux Version 0.12 was
released, an improved, stable kernel.

# The next release was called Version 0.95, to
reflect the fact that it was becoming a full-featured system.

# Torvalds released version 0.12 under the
established GNU GPL General Public License.

# The Red Hat distribution, by commercial
vender Red Hat Software, Inc. is one of the most popular distribution. With a
choice of GUI and Text-based installation procedures.